The New Curriculum Under The Conditions Of Chinese Primary And Secondary Education For International Understanding,

Education for International Understanding has a long history as a basic concept. It holds the aim to stimulate the understanding among different culture background, different peoples and different religions to strengthen the understanding and cooperation between persons, and to study and handle important problems together correspondingly. In the field of education, it demands that the school should teach students to respect each other to understand multi-orientation of the world, to learn to live with each other, to cooperate to have the sense of international responsibility and hold the conceptions of earth village.Education for International Understanding, to its core, includes the knowing and upholding of one's own traditional culture, the respecting and understanding to the different cultures, the nurturing and teaching of the skill in international communication, the studying and exercising of international rules about economy and law, the understanding of the international relationship, the nourishing of the "World Citizen". As to its particularity, it emphasize the culture and communication, emphasize the culture and communication, emphasize the equality of education, the non-knowledge and exchange of subjects, the self-determination of the students, and the flexibleness of the nurturing process.Today when we get into the 21st century, world's economy gets the tendency towards internationalization and integration. Our country has more and more linking with the world. In order to cope with the challenge of entering into WTO, higher request for students from knowledge economy, and meet the need of developing the international communication and cooperation and upholding our country's traditional culture, the development of Education for International Understanding is very necessary. Besides that, the concept of Education for International Understanding is in the same direction with our curriculum reformation, which increases the possibility of carrying out the Education forInternational Understanding in our education.As to the execution of Education for International Understanding in the primary and middle school in our country, we must make up good plan on how to execute it according to the circumstances in our country. We can divide the aim of Education for International Understanding in three categories which are knowledge aim, attitude aim and ability aim. In the process of execution, first we should deepen the understanding of it, uplift the new concept of Education for International Understanding, secondly we should put weight on the ways of practicing it, and thirdly, we also should pay attention to the text's choosing and revision based on Education for International Understanding.Besides that, in the process of practicing Education for International Understanding, in the same time, we should make reasonable comment to every link and every factor of it. And with the help of this, we can get useful response in order to avoid any mistakes and guarantee the healthy development of Education for International Understanding.